Tweezers.



PATENTED NOV. 14, 1905.

E. U. ELLSWORTH.

TWEEZERS. APPLIGATIOH FILED JUNE 24,1905.

INVENTOB EDGAR C.ELLSWORTH & F. S E 1 N U W ATTORNEYS UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR CHAPMAN ELLSVVORTH, OF CAMBRIDGE, VERMONT, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TOU. C. HOLDEN, OF IVEBSTER, MAINE.

TWEEZERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1905.

Application filed June 24, 1905. Qerial No. 266,852.

, which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to tweezers adapted for general use, but speciallydesigned for watchmakers for use in removing and replacing theescapement-lever of watches.

The object had in view is to provide a new and useful implement of thischaracter which shall not only possess special advantages for thepurpose intended, but be cheap to manufacture and simple inconstruction.

To the end above stated I have invented the peculiar tweezers or, moredefinitely stated, attachment to an ordinary pair of spring-tweezersshown by the accompanying drawings and which will hereinafter be fullydescribed, the novel features thereof being pointed out in the claims.

In the.drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of an ordinary pair ofspring-tweezers with my attachment shown applied thereto, and Fig. 2 isa horizontal sectional View through the tweezers and my attachment.

In the practice of my invention I employ an elastic or yielding metalplate A and rivet or otherwise secure it at its upper end B to the outerside of one leg of an ordinary pair of tweezers C.

It will be observed that the spring-plate A is arranged on the tweezerswith its lower or free end projecting beyond the leg of the tweezers towhich it is secured, and it will be further noticed that the projectingend of the spring-plate is bifurcated, as at D, adapted for receivingthe post or arbor, whereupon the lever is arranged between the forksthus formed at the projecting end of the springplate.

It is intended that the mode of attachment of the plateA to the tweezersshall permit of the plate being adjusted, as indicated by dotted linesin Fig. 1, and thereby permit use of the tweezer-legs, as will beunderstood by watchmakers and, in fact, any person using the instrument.

It is preferred that the spring-plate A be made substantially the samewidth as the tweezer-legs, and to limit adjustment in one direction ofthe plate a fixed stop E may be arranged on the tweezer-leg to which theplate is secured, (see Fig. 1,) and the stop may consist of a struck-upportion of the leg or be in the nature of a pin or shoulder, obvious tothose skilled in the art and not thought necessary to illustrate indetail.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a pair of tweezers,

of a-spring-plate secured near its upper end,

to the outer side of one leg of thetweezers, the plate being arrangedwith its lower end projecting beyond the tweezer-legs and adapted to beadjusted, on its attachment device, to one side out of alinement withthe tweezerlegs, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a pair of tweezers, of a spring-plate securednearits upper end, to the outer side of one leg. of the tweezers, theplate being arranged with its lower end projecting beyond thetweezer-legs, the projecting end being bifurcated or made forked, andthe plate adapted to be adjusted out of alinement with the tweezer-legs,substantially as described.

3. The combination with a pair of tweezers, of a spring-plate on theouter side of one leg of the tweezers. the plate being arranged with itsfree end projecting beyond the tweezerlegs, and said free end bifurcatedor made forked, and a stop whereby to limit adjustment of thespring-plate, substantially as described.

EDGAR CHAPMAN ELLSWORTH.

Witnesses:

GLENNA BRUSH, ANN A. LEACH.

